The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01
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Fact and Fiction About Worne1 and /
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New YORK, April So wonder e vorr
know Mary Tillinghast. She used to be
John La Farge's partner, and Vanderbilt
paid her $4,000 once upon a time for in
venting a new sort of tapestry hanging for
his houses. OF the women who have taken
up decorative art as an occupation she is,
perhaps, as conspicuously successful as any.
l spent an hour III her studio in Washington
square yesterday, looking at the designs for
a memorial window that she has lust COM
pleted for Grace Church, New York.
1t would be hard to find an old New
Yorker who did not know the name of Ben
jamin +. Hutton, and who had not at his
tongues end the fairy tae-common enough
in this land of the free by the way--of the
poor boy, the Giligent youth, the plucky and
lucky importer, the Aladdin's fortune, the
two beautiful daughters, the capture Of a
couple of European titles and the final
death of the merchant and his wife within
a few months of each other.
BY virtue of the European titles-and
they had more virtue in them this time than
often falls to the lot OF New York heir
eSses--the beautiful daughters are now the
MarQuise de Portes and the Countess de
Moltke HiedwclI To Countess and Mar
quise then K some time since occurred to
erect in Grace Church stained glass win
COW 10 Ulls Vi IilclI ldbileT,
Miss Iiuighast submitted drawings, whose
motive was supplied by Murillos Jacobs
Dream No piece of cathedral art had
ever been intrusted in this country to
woman, but her designs We're so obviously
the best that needs must; precedent was
broken through The glass has been pre-
pared under her personal supervision, and
the work is now practically complete. Miss
1illinghast's treatment of her subject is a
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itancy usually ascrihed TO the feminine
brush. The angels ascending and descend
ing the ladder are full Of life and vigor, and
the window will take rank with the best of
modern decorative work.
Miss Rosina Emmet's studio in Twenty
third street has busy work-a-day look not
much like some of the play houses that 60
by that name row end then Miss Emmett,
who will be Mrs John Sherwood's daugh-
ter-in-law before long, is tall girl with
very slim figure and great brown eyes.
1t would be Of interest TO know how
many young women Miss Catherine Wolfe
assisted through Vassar, and how many of
her benehcaries were us ignorant of the
source of their help rs girl student whom
ran across the other day. A petite little
senior Just home for her Easter vacation,
she only learned on the day of Miss Wolfe's
funeral how it came about that her aunt
iltt't Ni'llOANlD b'tii dbiS W SlNN hti ~
college education and meet the constantly
recurring tuition bills.
JENNY JUNE's NEW PLACE.
Jenny June has stepped into her new
place as editor of GodeBS Lady Book, and
begun her tasks as energetically as if she
had not thirty years and more of busy pen
labor behind her. II have never known
from the beginning" she said few days
ago, what it was to have difficulty in find
ing work, but if editors and newspaper
readers have liked what wrote, itmust have
been Of their own Kindness, for have never
set amy value OF il MYSELF Mrs. Croly's
daughter, Vida, is one of the most promis-
ing pupils of the Iyceum Theatre School of
Acting.
LOUISA M. Alcott. now and then as a
special favor, accorded TO party Of school
girls on pilgrimage to Concord oftener
than to anybody else perhaps, takes from
her desk an old-fashioned portfolio and ex-
hibits quantity of sketches after Turner
made by her artist sister, the original of
Amy in Little Women, who married aud
died abroad.